Mohnish Bahl took a stance in the nepotism debate by saying that if nepotism worked in Bollywood, he wouldn’t be playing villainous and parallel roles. Actor Mohnish Bahl is the son of late actor Nutan and his daughter is Pranutan Bahl who recently landed her debut film, Notebook. He talked about how her daughter landed her debut role by not using familial connections but by going to auditions and working hard.
“There is no Mohnish or Nutan Ji standing behind you in front of the camera. It is just you. That is why I feel all this debate is superficial. I don’t give it much thought. If you look at it this way, my entire family is the product of nepotism–right from my grandmother Shobhana Samarth to my mother Nutan to Tanuja to Kajol to my cousin brother-in-law Ajay Devgn–it is basically everybody. Where do you stop? Hats off to people who come from non-film backgrounds and make it on their own but there is nothing shameful about being an industry kid too. Eventually, you have to make it on your own,” he said.
“Frankly, if nepotism really helped people, I wouldn’t have been playing negatives and parallel leads all my life, considering whose son I am. There are so many other examples of people who have not even gotten as good as me and outsiders who have made it big,” he added.
